The Creeper is one of the oldest creatures in the game: it was the first hostile mob to be added to the survival test version in 2009. However, no one planned to add such a monster to the game. According to the creator, Marcus Persson (Notch), he was simply trying to create a pig. “Creepers were a error,” Notch said in the 2012 documentary Minecraft: The Mojang Story. “I didn’t have any 3D editors to create models, I just described them in code. And I accidentally made the model taller instead